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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1110s  1120s  1130s  – 1140s –  1150s  1160s  1170s
Years:	1139 1140 1141 – 1142 – 1143 1144 1145

1142 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

Art and literature

1142 in poetry v • d • e

1142 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1142 MCXLII
Ab urbe condita	1895
Armenian calendar	591 ԹՎ ՇՂԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-702 – -701
Berber calendar	2092
Buddhist calendar	1686
Burmese calendar	504
Byzantine calendar	6650 – 6651
Chinese calendar	辛酉年十二月初三日 (3778/3838-12-3) — to — 壬戌年十二月十三日 (3779/3839-12-13)
Coptic calendar	858 – 859
Ethiopian calendar	1134 – 1135
Hebrew calendar	4902 – 4903
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1197 – 1198
- Shaka Samvat	1064 – 1065
- Kali Yuga	4243 – 4244
Holocene calendar	11142
Iranian calendar	520 – 521
Islamic calendar	536 – 537
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3475
Thai solar calendar	1685
v • d • e

[edit] Events

• Emperor Konoe succeeds Emperor Sutoku on the throne of Japan.
• Henry the Lion becomes Duke of Saxony.
• The Empress Maud grants Oakley, Buckinghamshire Church, with its chapels of Brill, Boarstall and Addingrove, to the monks of St. Frideswide's Priory, in Oxford.
• August 31 – With the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah, The Great Peacemaker, the Iroquois tribes establish the Confederation of the Haudenosaunee.

[edit] Births

• Farid od-Din Mohammad ebn Ebrahim 'Attar, Persian mystical poet (d. 1220)
• Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1192)

[edit] Deaths

• January 27—Yue Fei, Chinese military leader (b. 1103)
• April 21—Pierre Abélard, French scholastic philosopher (b. 1079)
• Orderic Vitalis, English chronicler (b. 1075)